Description
Death and Religion: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to dying, death, grief, and conceptions of the afterlife in world religions.
It leads readers through considerations of how we understand meanings of death and after-death, and the theories and practices attached to these states of being, with recourse to various religious worldviews: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Chinese Religions, and Native American belief systems. This inter-religious approach provides a rich, dynamic survey of varying and evolving cultural attitudes to death. Topics covered include:
- Religious perspectives of the good death
- Grief, bereavement, and mourning
- Stages and definitions of death
- Burial, cremation, and disposition
- Remembrance rituals
- Religious theories of the afterlife
- Death and technology
